Over 2,000 Lewis Hamilton fans voted on who is likely to be Hamilton’s strongest competitor in 2011.

Sebastian Vettel, the 2010 champion, is perceived to be the main threat. Followed by Alonso who is always a threat in a good car. Hamilton’s team-mate Jenson Button was voted the 3rd strongest competitor in front of Mark Webber (4th) and Michael Schumacher (5th).

Comparing this mid-season poll compared to the start-of-season poll things have changed quite drastically. Fernando Alonso who was previously voted to be the main challenger by a margin with 38%, this has now dropped to 3% of the total votes.

Whoever will challenge Lewis for the rest of the season it sure looks to be rounding up a great 2010 season with Lewis Hamilton having superb changes for the F1 driver’s championship.

The Formula 1 season just passed halfway and Lewis Hamilton is leading the championship by 12 points, ahead of his McLaren team mate Jenson Button. The season seems to be shaping up nicely for Lewis and McLaren. The Red Bull’s fighting each other recently has helped Lewis to do super well in the last few races getting 86 points from a possible 100!(more…)

Lewis Hamilton introduces the new Transmission Series, exclusively available through Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. Transmission puts fans in the driving seat and lets you vote for what content you want to see.

The results from the poll on who would be Lewis Hamilton’s main competitor in the 2010 Formula 1 season are here.

Over 1700 Lewis Hamilton fans have participated in the poll.
Here are the results:

Fernando Alonso has received the most votes for being Lewis Hamilton’s competitor by a country mile. Which seems to reflect his win in Bahrain last weekend.

Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher are relatively close together followed by Sebastian Vettel. I would have thought that Vettel would be most competitive after Alonso, as he as proven to be very good. We don’t know how Michael Schumacher was going to do so he’s a bit of an unknown and it also largely depends on how Mercedes GP improve. But he’s always going to be a threat.

It was also surprising that Nico Rosberg received so few votes as he’s a quality driver!